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ARTstor welcomes new subscribing institutions
As of August 1, 2013, there were 1,517 institutions participating in the
ARTstor Digital Library. During July, ARTstor welcomed Mercer University
(GA); National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan); City Colleges of Chicago
(Harold Washington College, Harry S. Truman College, Kennedy-King
College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Richard J. Daley
College, and Wilbur Wright College); and Indianapolis Museum of Art (IN).
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educational institutions in 45 countries use the Digital Library. View a
list of current subscribers here.
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A challenging treasure: the James Dee archives
D. James Dee, aka the SoHo Photographer, was searching for a home for his
archive of slides, transparencies, negatives, and digital photographs of
approximately 250,000 works of contemporary art. However, the archive
came with one major piece missing: metadata. How could we resist?
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How do you browse through 1.6 million images?
Searching is great, but with 1.6 million images to choose from, can you
browse through the virtual stacks of the ARTstor Digital Library? What
is the best way to discover images from 235 collections from museums,
photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and
artists' estates from around the world? We have some tips.
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Art in context: installation photography
Exhibition design is a central topic in museology, and is also of
interest to curators, art historians, and even artists, who often want
to see what effect context has on artworks. The ARTstor Digital Library
offers tens of thousands of exhibition documentation images from the
late 19th century to the present from major American institutions.
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Flint Institute of Arts
ARTstor and the Flint Institute of Arts (FIA) have collaborated to
share more than 2,300 images in the Digital Library.
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Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain
13,000 images of medieval stained glass windows in Great Britain from
the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain are now available in
the Digital Library.
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Smith College Museum of Art
ARTstor Digital Library has collaborated with the Smith College Museum
of Art to share 4,900 images from the museum's permanent collection.
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Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
ARTstor has collaborated with the Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for
Islamic Art to release 100 additional images of Islamic and South Asian
art in the Digital Library.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The ARTstor Digital Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have
collaborated to share more than 1,300 additional images of art and
artifacts from the museum's permanent collection.
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New agreement: 1,000 additional images
from the Seattle Art Museum
ARTstor has reached an agreement with the Seattle Art Museum to make
available an additional 1,000 images of world art from the museum's
permanent collection.
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Meet ARTstor and Shared Shelf staff in Singapore
ARTstor is visiting Singapore in August! President James Shulman will
be presenting at the Fiesole Collection Development Retreat (August
12), and ARTstor/Shared Shelf staff will be at IFLA 2013 (August
17-23).
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What is ARTstor?
ARTstor is a nonprofit organization that makes available a Digital
Library of more than 1.6 million images in the arts, architecture,
humanities, and sciences with a set of tools to use images for teaching
and learning.
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Trial Access
Explore the Digital Library's content and tools with an
institution-wide, free 30-day trial.
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Join the ARTstor Community
Join the more than 1,500 institutions from the higher education,
museum, K-12, and public library communities that subscribe to ARTstor for
research and teaching.
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Image credit: a)
Photographer D. James Dee and his archive | Photographed by Marin Watts;
b) Rollie McKenna, photographer | Installing the exhibition, "The
Graphic Work of Edvard Munch." | February 6, 1957 through March 3,
1957 | Photographic Archive; The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York
| © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bono, Oslo; c) Henry
Moore | Working Model for Sheep Piece | 1971 | Image and original data
provided by the Flint Institute of Arts | © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS),
New York / DACS, London; d) York Minster, Nave, north aisle, north
window: scene from the legend of St. Nicholas | c. 1170-1190 | York,
England | Image provided by the English Heritage Archive | Original data
provided by Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Great Britain; e) Le Corbusier |
Poème de l'angle droit | 1955 | ©2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC; f) India | Perfume Flask | late 19th or early
20th century | Image and original data courtesy of Shangri La, Doris Duke
Foundation for Islamic Art; g) Water jar (hydria) | about 530-520 B.C. |
Greece | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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